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Edgardo Rafael Baez Republican

US House, District 20

About this race: A US House seat on the 120th Congress map, covering part of Bexar County. The records on the race page are votes and cosponsorships in Congress, listed in date order, each with its own source.

Whose record this page shows. The paragraph above is about the race, not about this candidate in particular. Everything after this line on this page is Edgardo Rafael Baez’s own record and nothing else — including, where it says so, the finding that no record was located. No cannabis record is listed on this page for Edgardo Rafael Baez, so where the paragraph above points at records, it is pointed at the race page and not at this one. Every record the paragraph above describes is set out candidate by candidate on the US House, District 20 race page.

Which map this is. This seat is drawn on the 120th Congress map, the one on the 3 November ballot. Measured by area — not by population — 55% of it was inside district 20 on the 119th Congress map, which stands until the end of 2026; the rest came from district 35 (35%), district 28 (8.5%) and district 23 (1.9%). So where a candidate below is badged as holding seat 20 today, that badge means the seat number on this ballot — not all of the ground the seat now covers. Your own district may have changed number without your address changing. Check your own address in the district finder.

Edgardo Rafael BaezRepublican

No record compiled yet. Nothing on cannabis — no vote, bill, statement or endorsement — was found in any source we could read. One limit on that search is recorded with it.

What was checked for Edgardo Rafael Baez, and the limits on it

Checked on 2026-09-18: their San Antonio Report candidate profile, their Ballotpedia entry, their campaign site and their campaign video channel.

Also checked: the Spectrum News report of 2026-03-03 on Texas candidates and THC policy, the only outlet that put the question directly to 2026 congressional candidates, which does not quote them; and NORML’s Texas guide, which covers sitting members of Congress only. We also checked the full membership roll of the 89th Texas Legislature: this candidate is not a member, so there is no state roll call to attribute.

⚠️This card does not tell you whether this candidate held a seat in an earlier Legislature, but the question is now narrower. Read on 2026-10-15, from each chamber’s own journal: the roll of members-elect that the Texas House Journal prints, district by district, on the first day of every regular session from the 75th Legislature (1997) through the 89th (2025), and every senator the Texas Senate Journal names with a district on the first day of every regular session from the 76th (1999) through the 89th.

For the 89th those are journals.house.texas.gov/hjrnl/89r/pdf/89RDAY01FINAL.PDF and journals.senate.texas.gov/SJRNL/89R/HTML/89RSJ01-14-F.HTM and every journal read is listed on this site’s corrections page. No one by this candidate’s name appears in any of them. That is narrower than a negative answer. Those rolls name the members seated as each session opened, and in most years the Senate’s names the senators who were not up for election by surname alone, so a member who sat only in earlier sessions, who arrived at a special election and was never named in full on a later first day, or who served under another name would not be found this way.

If this candidate is one of those, there may be a cannabis voting record this site is missing.

Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-05: this candidate’s Ballotpedia profile at ballotpedia.org/Edgardo_Baez, including their Candidate Connection survey answers, which are published in full on that page. Neither the profile nor the survey answers contain cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8 or Compassionate Use.

Also checked, and read in full on 2026-10-06: this candidate’s own campaign site at www.drbaezforcongress.com — 30 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 426,121 characters of text in all. The site identifies itself as the campaign of Dr. Edgardo Baez for Congress and names the 20th Congressional District of Texas.

The extracted text of those pages contains no occurrence, on a word boundary, of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, Compassionate Use, delta-8, delta-9, dispensary, decriminalize, cannabinoid or psilocybin.

This card has been corrected. What earlier versions of it said, and what was wrong with them, is published in the corrections log.

No score: this candidate has no recorded vote or bill authorship on a cannabis measure. Silence is not a position, so nothing is inferred from it.

Campaign sites and voter guides checked for Edgardo Rafael Baez

Pages read in full:

  • onyourballot.vote411.org/m/race-detail.do?id=25682619 — sections on the page: Qualifications; Priorities; Health Care; Immigration; Energy; Economy; I would vote that stack in one direction; Artificial Intelligence — the question set the local League of Women Voters chapter wrote for this race, read in full by us on 2026-10-06. Not one of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or drug policy. The candidate answered, in free text of their own, and no answer of theirs contains, on a word boundary, cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, hemp-derived, THC, thc-a, CBD, delta-8, delta-9, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation, psilocybin, Compassionate Use, consumable hemp, SB 3, Senate Bill 3, HB 1325 or HB 46.
  • www.drbaezforcongress.com their own site — sections on the page: the whole of this candidate's own campaign site as this guide read it — 30 pages, reached from the home page’s own links and from the site’s sitemap.xml, each fetched only after its host’s robots.txt had been checked and found to permit it, 426,121 characters of text in all. This row was built on 2026-10-12 out of the sentence above it in this card's own search log, which named the address and said it had been read while the list beside it did not. It records no reading that the log had not already published. Read 2026-10-17 in a fresh crawl starting from the homepage: 90 pages read at HTTP 200 (the homepage, the site’s sitemaps, every page it links to one level down, and the pages under its issues and news sections). No cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, rescheduling, Schedule iii, safer Banking or decriminalisation term on a word boundary in the text or the raw page source of any page read. The same crawler, run the same day from each homepage, found the published cannabis planks on three campaign sites used as controls.
  • sanantonioreport.org/profile/edgardo-baez-2026-candidate-for-texas-20th-congressional-district — sections on the page: The San Antonio Report’s candidate profile, first published 2026-01-05 and last updated 2026-10-15, including its "Hear from the candidate" section of the candidate’s own answers, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). None of its questions asks about cannabis, hemp or THC, and no answer of theirs contains cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.
  • sanantonioreport.org/congressional-district-20-midterm-election-edgardo-baez-profile — sections on the page: A San Antonio Report profile of the candidate, published 2026-10-15, read in full by us on 2026-10-17 (HTTP 200). It quotes or paraphrases the candidate and contains no occurrence of cannabis, marijuana, marihuana, hemp, THC, CBD, delta-8, cannabinoid, dispensary, decriminalisation or Compassionate Use.

See the whole US House, District 20 race, including every opponent →

Who is paying for this campaign

Campaign finance — Federal Election Commission

Commission candidate H6TX20113, filed as “BAEZ, EDGARDO RAFAEL DR”, principal committee C00905661 (DR. BAEZ FOR CONGRESS). fec.gov

Everything below covers the reporting period that ended 2026-06-30, as filed with the Commission. These figures lag the filing deadlines: money raised after that date does not appear until the next report is due, so a recent contribution is not missing, it is not yet reportable.

What we could and could not put a label on

Fraction classified: 0%. We examined $42,201 — the 15 largest employer groupings ($6,906) and 6 committee contributions ($35,295) the Commission shows for this committee — and matched $0 of it to one of our own patterns. $42,201 is listed above as unclassified.

What that figure is not. $42,201 is what we examined, not everything this campaign raised: the Commission returns the largest employer groupings rather than every contribution, and contributions too small to be itemised carry no employer at all. Read the classified fraction as a share of what we looked at.

Any grouping of contributors into an industry is weedvoter’s own classification, applied to employer and committee names exactly as filed. The Commission publishes employers and committees; it never publishes industries. OpenSecrets discontinued its public interface in April 2025, so nothing here is an OpenSecrets classification.

Money received is not a position. Everything on this card is money that changed hands. It is not evidence that any contribution influenced any decision, nothing on it is placed beside a roll call, and we make no claim about anyone’s motive. For what Edgardo Rafael Baez has actually done about cannabis, read the record above on this page — the roll calls, the bills that carry their name, and the date of each one, every entry linked to the document it came from. That is the part of this page built to be judged, and it is the part the score is calculated from. No contribution on this card moves that score by a cent.